Can lifter



June 5, 1923.

P. D. MAREAU CAN LIFTER Filed March 5. 1920 INVEHTOR Patented June 5, 1923.

PERRY D. MAREAU, 0F BINGHAIYITON, NEW YORK.

can LIFTER.

Application filed March 3, 1920. Serial 1T0. 362,923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERRY D. MAREAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Can Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in can lifters, for lifting cans, or jars containing fruits, vegetables or like material to set in boiling water and arranged to enable the user to readily place such jar into a vessel containing hot water or remove it therefrom, without the danger of burning or scalding the hands, and to enable the user to readily open or close the lifter for engagement with or disengagement from the jar and to insure a firm grasp on the jar; my device being simple in construction and cheap to manufacture.

lVith these objects in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construct-ion and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompahying drawings, in which-Fig. 1, is a front elevation of my device as applied to a jar.

Fig. 2, is a. front elevation of my device as applied to a jar,

The same reference characters denote like parts in each of the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out my invention and referring to the drawings A designates a fruit jar of ordinary construction, and B designates as an entirety the jar lifter.

The jar lifter includes a pair of arm members 6 and 7, which in this instance are integral, and formed intermediate the ends into a horizontal loop 8 and projecting therefrom into a spring bow member 9, ar ranged to maintain said arm members separated; the said arm members projecting on a slant from an offset 5 extension of the spring bow 9; hence when the arm members 6 and 7 are forced inwardly towards each other, to engage a jar or smaller article, the spring bow member 9 will be placed under an increased tension. The said integral arm members 6 and 7 at their lower ends, are bent laterally as indicated at 10, and extend at right angles forming lateral curved jaws 11 being integral and folding back inwardly toward the arm members 6 and 7 in curve formation 12, towards the inner surface of the jaw 11,the"end 's being tiedaround'the being secured on the lower end of a shank 15 extending upwardly through loop 8 of the spring bow 9, the upper end of shank 15 terminating in the ring or handle 16.

When the device is in use the spring arm members 6 and 7 thus projecting from the spring bow 9 hold the jaws 11 in a spaced relation and at a distance. As the slide 14 moves upward to its higher position on the inclined portion of the arm members 6 and 7, then the arm members are spread apart as plainly indicated in Fig. 1, to permit of the passing the jaws 11, 11 over the upper end of jar A, until the jaws 11 are immediately below flange 16. The operator now presses in a downward direction, so that the slide 14 acting on the inclined portion of arms 6 and 7 causes the arms to move inwardly to engage the lips of jaws 11, 11 with the under side of flange 16, as plainly shown in full lines in Fig. 2. The operator then grasps the spring bo-w 9, used as a handle, and lifting raises the entire lifter and with it the jar A, thus permitting the operator to readily transfer the jar from a table to a vessel containing the boiling water or to lift the jar from the vessel back to the table or other place of deposit without the danger of scalding the hands. It will be noted owing to the length of the projecting arms 6 and 7, as the slide 14 is pressed downward, it has a tendency to draw in somewhat the arms 6 and 7, thus forming a firm frictional contact with the arms and holding the jaws in a gripping position on j arA. To disengage the lifter from jar A, the operator by grasping with one hand spring how 9 and with the other taking hold of handle 16 and pulling upward the slide 14, he releases the pressure on arms 6 and 7 which immediately spread apart and release the jaws 11 from their grip on jar A.

Thus having described my invention, what I claim as new and for which I desire Letters Patent is as follows:

A jar lifter comprising a pair of jaw members formed from a single piece of wire bent upon ,itself intermediate its ends to form a spring bow member provided at its apex with an eye and bent below the apex to form shoulders to be engaged by the fingers, said aw members being formed by looping the wire at its ends and bending the same into arcuate shape to conform to the neck of a jar with the sides of the wire forming the loops of the jaw members disposed'in the same horizontal plane and a his PERRY D. X MAREAU.

, mark WVitnesses:

E. J. BURNS, B. S. CURRAN. 

